US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on April 22 for "Measuring laser diode temperature and predicting mode hops using laser diode resistance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,293, issued on April 22, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Measuring laser diode temperature and predicting mode hops using laser diode resistance" was invented by Sukumar Rajauria (San Jose, Calif.), Erhard Schreck (San Jose, Calif.) and Dongying Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include a disk, an actuator arm assembly comprising a magnetic recording head, a laser diode, and one or more processing devices configured to: initiate a write operation, wherein the write operation is associated with a first temperature of the laser diode; measure a resistance...